Past Articles

Christina Uss writes in the Republican Weekend edition about the 104-mile rail trail, that will someday connect Boston with the Valley. It’s a struggle all right, since the hurricane in 1938 that scuttled the rails that put the Mass Central out of business, and left the tracks to rot. Over […]

Today we recieved a big box from espresso parts.com, they had sent us some new china cups and some cute little espresso spoons. We are glad that now we can finally offer customers real china cups to sip from. But the part that amazed me was that the box was […]

Wired magazine’s Charles C. Mann writes about Splogs in the September issue. A grim tally: more than half of the 10 million blogs in creation are actually these fake blogs, using snippets of unintelligible text scraped from legitimate blogs and books, just there to reap click through revenues from Google […]

Tidbits from a day on the web and at the cafe: The Scotsman reports today about an uproar caused by a job center in Edinburgh that has advertised a job as a lapdancer as a city nightclub. The job description states that the successful applicant will have to perform duties […]

Today we visited another internet cafe in Ulster County NY. This one was light filled and airy, and was called Jack and Luna’s cafe. They served a breakfast panini, which feels like a way to charge much more for a grilled version of our egg sandwich that we sell at […]

I met my friend Todd Adelson yesterday, he was kind enough to bring me my new order of embroidered shirts for GoNOMAD. He zoomed up to meet me in a white Porsche, (a silver one is seen here), one of the nicest, fastest and coolest cars you can buy. I […]

A wickedly good Friday at the cafe. Maybe it’s that pre-holiday buzz, that feeling of excitement and anticipation of a relaxing labor day weekend. Kristin, one of our regular customers, said she hoped it would rain. “I don’t feel well, and the house needs to be cleaned, so I’d love […]

Today’s Hartford Courant included a glimpse into the life of the man who runs the largest trash processing plant in the state. And over more than 20 years, John Romano has seen it all. “Oh, the coins, it’s the coins that fascinate me,” he said, of the nickels and dimes […]

I skipped when I left the doctor’s office today, skipped just like Woody Allen did when he exited his doctor’s office in “Manhattan” with no evidence of the brain tumor he was convinced that he had. Oh how I love that skip! Told that PSA and liver are all in […]

Earlier this week I was thrilled to get a copy of a new travel book in the mail. It was Tim Leffel’s book from Travel Tales about being a contrarian traveler. It’s called Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune. He approached me months back asking for a sidebar, I […]

Last night I turned on PBS and saw a man holding an old baseball game ticket from the 1930s. It was for game number 34, at Yankee Stadium, in the year 1939. That is a famous game because it was the double header where Lou Gerhig made his famous speech, […]

Interesting people come into the cafe quite often. That’s one of things I like best about this business, the people who pop in for coffee and ask for the owner. Julie Paquette is a pretty woman with long blond hair who is sharp…she works for many clients using Quickbooks software. […]

I wrote about a new Time Inc website before it debuted. It has now died. It was called “Office Pirate” and now that I’ve read in the NY Post that it is gone, I finally got a chance to check it out. And you know it is (was) pretty funny. […]

Last night we had dinner at Cindy’s with a fun couple from Longmeadow. They work in the insurance business, and I got a chance to find out some interesting things about this massively profitable enterprise. When somebody signs up for a life insurance policy, for example, it only takes seven […]

I woke up early, a fitful sleep, with my grandson Nathan crying and waking me up in the night. Groggy, I set out to open the cafe for 8. Slow start, crappy day out, so time to read the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Next month they turn into a morning paper, […]

Today’s Springfield Republican included a story by Mary Ellen Lowney about the decline of watch wearing. She found many youth who shun the wrist adornment, and others who simply said they knew what time it was all day, without a watch. Attorney Michael Ryan, for example, told the reporter exactly […]

It’s pouring rain outside, and I made it to the cafe around 8:45, to find Britt looking kind of weak. She said she wanted to go home, so I took over. Once again, not expecting it, but hey, I really do like this work, and when this happens the business […]